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XP Pro somehow became XP home

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Mar 15, 2026860 views
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I installed XP Pro SP2 on a newly formatted C: drive on the same Dell Dimension 8100 computer that had been previously running XP Pro. It worked fine. I went to Update.Microsoft.com and installed all the high priority fixes, including SP3, and most of the other updates. Now, the computer reports th…

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I have experienced this same issue. I recently reinstalled Windows XP Professional on a 5-year old Dell desktop using the disk from Dell, and thought I was going insane when I realized that XP Home was actually installed. After wasting a bunch more …

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